[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 93 (Tuesday, July 18, 2000)]
[House]
[Page H6368]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  CONTINUED NATIONAL SECURITY CONCERNS

  (Mr. GIBBONS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GIBBONS. Mr. Speaker, one of the greatest responsibilities our 
government has to the American people is to protect the national 
security interests of our great Nation. Unfortunately, over the past 
year evidence has shown that the Clinton-Gore administration has 
maintained a lax, even negligent, national security policy with regard 
to China.
  Get this, the administration has now permitted defense contractors 
and computer companies to hire hundreds of Chinese technicians to work 
on highly sensitive and classified military-related technologies.
  Not only to me, but to the American people and to top officials in 
the Pentagon, it is obvious why China is sending to the U.S. their most 
highly educated and motivated professionals. China is continuing its 
efforts to obtain U.S. military secrets and technology by any means, 
legal or illegal. This breakdown of American national security is 
beyond belief and must stop.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield back the administration's careless disregard for 
a country's most sensitive and classified technology which continues to 
jeopardize the U.S. national security every day.

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